Hosea 6

1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

來吧，我們歸向耶和華！ 他撕裂我們，也必醫治； 他打傷我們，也必纏裹。

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

過兩天他必使我們甦醒， 第三天他必使我們興起， 我們就在他面前得以存活。

3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

我們務要認識耶和華， 竭力追求認識他。 他出現確如晨光； 他必臨到我們像甘雨， 像滋潤田地的春雨。

4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness is as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

主說：以法蓮哪，我可向你怎樣行呢？ 猶大啊，我可向你怎樣做呢？ 因為你們的良善如同早晨的雲霧， 又如速散的甘露。

5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

因此，我藉先知砍伐他們， 以我口中的話殺戮他們； 我施行的審判如光發出。

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

我喜愛良善，不喜愛祭祀； 喜愛認識上帝，勝於燔祭。

7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

他們卻如亞當背約， 在境內向我行事詭詐。

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

強盜成群，怎樣埋伏殺人， 祭司結黨，也照樣在示劍的路上殺戮， 行了邪惡。

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

在以色列家，我見了可憎的事； 在以法蓮那裏有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

猶大啊，我使被擄之民歸回的時候， 必有為你所命定的收場。